@gigatrainer said:
Eh....Total War is a TBS?
I've considered this question long and hard - after all, XCOM has a real-time Geoscape mode, yet its definition as a turn-based strategy game is undisputed. When it came down to it, however, I concluded that the real heart of any combat strategy game is the actual confrontation; the battle, the conflict, the combat. With this in mind, while in the Total War games (which I own five of: Medieval II, Empire, Napoleon, Shogun II and Rome II) you do indeed manage resources, construct infrastructures and build and deploy armies through a turn-based system, the actual confrontations themselves are resolved and simulated in real-time. Therefore, I would personally classify the Total War games as "real-time strategy games with turn-based grand strategic layers."
But, you know, such definitions are not derived through any process which can strictly be regarded as scientific by any measure, and are therefore naturally susceptible to the dynamics of human subjectivity. I most certainly have no intention of trying to change your personal opinions and definitions - I'm just trying to elaborate and explain my own.
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